Deborah Denno comments to ABC News about the execution of Ronnie Lee Gardner and the way in which it highlighted the many raw issues about the death penalty debate, ranging from its exorbitant costs to crime deterrence to the humaneness of killing an inmate by firing squad.
“People think lethal injection is more human because it’s related to medicine and doctors and a peaceful way of death, but in reality, it’s not,” said Deborah Denno from Fordham University. “It is an irony isn’t it that the method we think is most barbaric to our perception and in our history is in fact the method that is most humane.”
Watch the entire ABC News clip.
